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Cutting 100,000 jobs is absolutely insane. It's incredible how much the foundation of the car industry is being shaken and broken by China. It's huge news when Meta and Microsoft lay off ~5,000 and this is 20x that.

This is fascinating to me. As someone who grew up driving automatic transmission, none of this resonates with me at all. I've never listened to my car to tell me speed. I've never used the physical pullback from being high in a gear nor the loud sounds of being high in a gear as any sort of...

I also wasn't sure if #2 worked (if the sound was loud enough), but I did experiment with it last Halloween. I turned it on in my neighborhood when I came near a large party of trick-or-treaters, and every single one of them turned to look at me. I'm guessing the sound was indeed loud enough and...

Maybe explicitly to reach the audience of car buyers who hate EVs. Porsche is not developing this for EV enthusiasts. they want to convince petrol heads that EVs can be cool. So they should target the influencers who think it's cool to hate on EVs - as long as they're able to convince them...

I actually did receive a mailer survey request from them after I bought my taycan. I looked into it because id happily answer a few questions for the sake of public knowledge, but then I found out it's a 30-40 minute survey. For WHAT? There's a zero chance in hell you're getting me to sit down...

Your story is exactly why I was never a "car guy" for the first three decades of my life until electric cars and particularly the Taycan were released. There are some obnoxious racers that drive around my back roads every single day at 9pm and 12pm nearly religiously. The engine noises can be...

Do you not listen to music while driving? Even at low volume, I never notice the car sounds.

Not my thing, but hopefully this convinces some Vroomers to convert.

Yeah, I feel the same. I usually skew towards more pronounced visual designs, and it feels like others (Mercedes, Polestar, Audi, etc.) are taking chances on much wilder and unique body designs. For better or worse, they're much more eye catching than this. But I understand I'm not looking at a...

To be clear, are you purchasing a Taycan that's already in stock or are you ordering and waiting a few months for it to arrive? Wondering if you'll be there with it for any summer Seattle meetups that might happen!

It's always fun to see the updates, but I am (jealously?) glad there's nothing here I regret waiting for. In fact, I personally greatly dislike the changes they made to the electric sports sound. I hardly use mine, but when I do, I like that it sounds like a smooth spaceship. This gurgling...

Yeah, there's range anxiety, and don't forget there's degradation fears. "I buy a car that has 250 miles of range, and in 5 years it could be just 150!" Even folks on this forum have threads dedicated to meticulously watching battery degradation. They're both very real concerns in 2026...

I've said this recently and I'll say it again. Very lazy writing to not include any mention of continuous price increase and how that hurts their positioning, especially in the EV market where their unique engine design doesn't exist as a unique selling point.

The interior and exterior are a complete step above the Luce. But yeah, I can see how the exterior of this car can be super polarizing. I don't like how abruptly wide and blocky the back half of the car juts out.

I didn't expect it to cost so much (base equivalent to $140K??). The exterior is OK, the interior is depressingly Tesla. The performance seems...fine? What are the highlights that make this car exciting and worth the price? I'm confused that someone could buy a lower-end Taycan model, get PAR...

I'd still make an appt and have them check it out. Just because it's working now doesn't mean it won't become troublesome again 3 days from now. Document your issues as best as possible to help your tech better understand the situation, especially because machines love to magically work when IT...

Cool stuff. Can you ask it to compare the Taycan depreciation to Porsche's broader lineup excluding its 2-door sports cars? Panamera, Macan, Cayenne. I find the last section title a little misleading: " Why Taycans depreciate faster than traditional Porsches" Did the AI pick that title, or is...

Just based on general conversations I've seen here (and had with broader EV owners) - it seems that most folk who buy an EV don't go back to gas IF they have a home charger. The most regret I see with EV purchases is from people who don't have access to home charging or other very reliable...

Is that really the case, though? Now the comparisons will be "lack of drama/excitement" AND "it's also ugly." Or, if anything, I would imagine a lack of the former argument would be because: "it's so ugly, I don't even care to compare it." I don't think the comparison to gas cars matters to EV...

I've been having my own issues with the PCM/Bluetooth the last month, finally got annoyed enough to schedule a dealership visit. They said there's no troubleshooting steps I can go through besides bringing it in. So, you gotta bring it in.